At my advanced age – I’m now an octogenarian – I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

As you get older, you’re not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn’t running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.

I love a natural look in pictures.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

The older you get, the better you get.

I’m from the generation that had the boys‘ door and the girls‘ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

I’m working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation’s is Vietnam.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.

I like making things. I don’t like getting my picture taken.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I’d ever have any interest in filmmaking.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.